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CVE-2016-4856

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-05-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise 6.3.x prior to 6.3.5 and Splunk Light 6.3.x prior to 6.3.5 allows attacker with administrator rights to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Splunk Enterprise: 6.3.0, 6.3.1, 6.3.2, 6.3.3, 6.3.4

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92990
• https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN71462075/index.html
• https://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAPN9
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92990
• https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN71462075/index.html
• https://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAPN9

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